Isolepis aucklandica Hook.f.
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Isolepis aucklandica Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. I. (Fl. Antarct.) Part I, 88, t.50 (1844)
Isolepis aucklandica Hook.f.
Nomenclature
Hook.f.
Hook.f.
1844
88, t.50
ICN
Isolepis aucklandica Hook.f.
species
Isolepis aucklandica
Classification
Synonyms
Descriptions
Isolepis aucklandica Hook.f.
2n = 42
n = 21
Rhizomatous, in bright green, very leafy patches (1) -2-6- (12) cm high. Inflorescence of 1- (2) spikelets partly hidden by bract. Stamens 3. Style-branches 3. Nut 1-2 mm long, trigonous, white or grey.
Rhizomatous, forming large, turfy patches, bright green above, fuscous towards the base. Rhizome c. 0.5 mm. diam. Culms 2–5–(7) cm. × c. 0.5 mm., rigid. Lvs up to 6 per culm, us. > culms, c. 0.5 mm. wide, or often setaceous and filiform, coriac., curved; sheaths with truncate orifice, pale brown and membr., often streaked with red, rarely entirely dark red-purple. Infl. apparently lateral, of 1–(2) narrow-oblong spikelets, (1)–2–3–(4) × (0.5)–1–1.5–(2) mm., partly hidden by the enlarged base of a subtending bract up to 5 times length of spikelet. Glumes 1.5–2.5 mm. long, lanceolate, acute, deciduous, green to pale grey-brown with reddish marks, to deep red-purple, margins tapered and often pinched in at the tip below the green, thickened, ± excurrent keel. Hypog. bristles 0. Stamens 3. Style-branches 3. Nut 1–2 mm. long, slightly > 0.5 mm. wide, almost = glume, elliptical, ± trigonous with rounded angles, almost white to yellowish, or grey- to red-brown, smooth and shining but very finely reticulate, tapering towards the apiculate black tip.
Taxonomic concepts
Isolepis aucklandica Hook.f.
Isolepis aucklandica Hook.f.
Isolepis aucklandica Hook.f.
Isolepis aucklandica Hook.f.
Isolepis aucklandica Hook.f.
Isolepis aucklandica Hook.f.
Isolepis aucklandica Hook.f.
Isolepis aucklandica Hook.f.
Isolepis aucklandica Hook.f.
Isolepis cartilaginea var. rigida Berggr.
Isolepis aucklandica Hook.f.
Isolepis subcucullata Berggr.
Isolepis aucklandica Hook.f.
Scirpus aucklandicus (Hook.f.) Boeckeler
Scirpus aucklandicus (Hook.f.) Boeckeler
Scirpus aucklandicus (Hook.f.) Boeckeler
Isolepis aucklandica Hook.f.
Scirpus aucklandicus var. subcucullata (Berggr.) C.B.Clarke
Isolepis aucklandica Hook.f.
Scirpus muscosus Kirk
Isolepis aucklandica Hook.f.
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1 January 2000
20 July 2006